Green Day - American Idiot
By Shaun Lingham
Date: Tuesday 3rd august 2004
Maybe not 100% correct... but I tabbed it by ear.
Tuning: Standard E A D G B E

Billie Joe plays a lot of songs with his guitar tuned down 1 step.
The way I tabbed it is so you can play it in a standard tuning.


Intro/Verses
I play mostly downstrokes but throw in a couple upstrokes as well
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|---666--4444--44--4--6--4----------------------------|
|---444--------22-----4--2----------------------------|

Chorus
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Solo
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Ending
Same as the Intro/Verse but the very final time he plays the riff he
misses the last chord(F#) hence you finish on the G#.
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